British National Corpus 2014 in the News

Lancaster University and Cambridge University Press are collaborating on the creation of the ‘Spoken British National Corpus 2014’ (the Spoken BNC2014) - a collection of 10 million words of spoken English.

The project, which is led jointly by Lancaster University’s Professor Tony McEnery and Cambridge University Press’ Dr Claire Dembry, is to compile a very large collection of recordings of real-life, informal, spoken interactions between people whose first language is British English.

These will then be transcribed and made publicly available for a wide range of research purposes.

Here you can read our interesting and entertaining research insights from the project, looking at how the things we say has changed over the past 2 decades!